and more! All of which have some sort of "Z-ish" quality about them, none of which will be handled by the ranges defined thus far according to the documentation for SAL Server if your application is run in the context of an accent sensitive collation.

Oops.

You get the point - this odd combination of actual linguistic characters used in language, phonetic symbols, and circled/parenthesize letters have a fundamental identity that users would expect to sort somewhere not far from the Z by default.

SQL Server does that well -- how about your application with your LIKE range? :-)

And just in case you thought I was done, it gets worse tomorrow....

This post brought to you by ⒵ (U+24b5, aka PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER Z, the last Z-like thing in the Latin script....)